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Stability and clearer error messages September 2026
- Precipitation maps use measured distribution profiles where they are known, now also for Hunter MP800 (MP815, MP820) and strip nozzles

- The hydraulic calculation copes with looped main pipes, valve boxes at a tee or partway along a main pipe, and pipe points that nearly touch

- Error messages come in your language; a save the server refuses keeps you in the project, and files that fail to load are retried, with a Retry button

- Drop an image or a PDF file onto the planner in Landscape or Layouts to place it

- Photos taken with a phone appear upright in PDF exports

- Layout sheets of very large projects can be saved again

- The Specs sheet XLS by Node keeps sleeves of different diameters apart

- IRRISeller shows the setup name on matched rows in the Equipment stage

- The About page shows which release the server is running

- Many crashes fixed: joining pipes, full-circle sprinklers, the lawn assistant, editing covers, cropping images, Moasure CSV import, saving, the Specs sheet and the Price editor
A faster project list June 2026
- The project list in the Workshop loads faster
Curved pipes, smarter snapping and one-file PDF export March 2026
- Pipes and lines can be drawn curved; hydraulics, lengths and drip fittings follow the bends

- Colour pipes by diameter with your own colour ranges, on the plan and on sheets with legend tables; set nozzle colours; import and export colour setups

- Hydrozones: mark them in Landscape, each in its own colour, and list them in Hydrozones tables on sheets

- Smarter snapping: orthogonal, parallel and perpendicular guides and curve-handle guides

- Draw lines and polygons precisely: type the length of each segment, undo the last point, and see a line's length on hover

- Precision pointer (Ctrl+Shift+Q): type an exact position as polar, offset or absolute coordinates

- Lawn assistant (turn it on in Config): the nozzle tool proposes head positions along lawn edges; arrow keys to choose, Enter to place

- Lay many copies at once: double-tap Space while dragging and type the spacing; rows of heads get overlap modes

- New drip covers: snake and no-perimeter; set the diameter of drip circles

- Slice a polygon with a line, and draw parallel copies of lines with the new parallel-line tool

- Group and ungroup objects; tint trees, bushes, objects and custom elements with a colour

- Alt+drag draws a freeform (lasso) selection; pick a favourite tool by its number with Ctrl+Space and reorder your favourites

- New layers panel in Landscape and Irrigation: show or hide landscape, heads, nodes, pipes and wires by group

- The view pans by itself when you draw or drag near the edge of the canvas

- Export all sheets as one multi-page PDF (the new default) or as separate PDFs; set any custom scale; reorder sheet tabs by dragging

- New Wiring tables on sheets, and every sheet table can be exported as CSV

- Valve boxes, controllers, water sources, sensors and quick couplers show their aliases as movable labels on sheets

- The layers manager on sheets can scale and thicken each layer or group

- Experimental: DXF import and export of the drawing (turn it on in Config)

- Design Studio links can start your customers from one of your projects; the Workshop shows project IDs to copy

- Price editor: collapse or expand all groups of a price list at once

- Many bugs fixed
Nozzle characteristics and much better tablets February 2026
- Much better tablet support: touches work without calibration, bigger buttons and handles, press and hold for actions, movable panels

- Config → Nozzle characteristics: edit a nozzle's radius and flow by pressure and its precipitation profile, and hide nozzles you never use

- The precipitation check reports distribution uniformity (DU) next to CU, with a rating

- Precipitation maps on sheets got legends, units and lawn-aware results; new Irrigation Uniformity and Time table; long tables continue on the next page

- Choose the colours of main and lateral pipes, drip lines, wires and sprinkler covers, including the under- and over-pressure highlights

- Draw polygons and brush surfaces directly on layout sheets

- Turn any table on a sheet into plain text and lines you can edit

- New equipment brand: Irritrol (spray bodies and valves)

- Faster hovering, selecting and dragging on large drawings

- The Workshop shows the exact date each project was created and changed

- Many bugs fixed
View links, support chat and an award December 2025
- View links: share a read-only project, no login needed; choose the tabs it opens, see how often it was opened, switch it off, or use its QR code

- New Info tab holds the project questionnaire

- Support chat inside IRRISketch, the planner and the viewer: attach images and get an e-mail when we reply

- Custom Elements Hub: share your sets publicly or with a password, browse by author, add other people's sets to your library and rate them

- Custom elements can be drip lines with your own emitter spacing and flow

- 1-inch rotors now appear in the main Rotor menu

- IRRISketch won "Startup of the Year" at the Irrigation Show 2025 Startup Showcase
IRRISearch September 2025
- IRRISearch: a public directory where people find irrigation contractors by name, by service or on a map, and ask them for a design

- Publish your Design Studio link on IRRISearch, with your address, location and the services you offer

- Custom elements can be lines, lines with an area or volume, and surfaces with patterns

- While you place heads, their flow is also shown in other units

- Bugs fixed, among them rotors with a male thread in the Specs sheet
Smaller improvements July 2025
- Moasure import: named points arrive as texts on the plan

- Outlays saved from a project open directly from the planner

- IRRISeller: with imperial units, volumes (trenches) are in cubic feet by default
Custom elements June 2025
- Custom elements: make your own items from pictures, images or parts of a drawing, with your own equipment and labour, and place them in Landscape, Irrigation or Layouts; they are counted in the Specs sheet

- Design Studio requests: a valve symbol, a more detailed address and file attachments

- Many bugs fixed: smoother dragging, icons and patterns load reliably, touch pan and zoom
The new Image tool and layout presets May 2025
- New Image tool, in place of the Underlayer: place PDF, JPG or PNG plans, set their scale, crop, swap the image, set opacity and lock it, also on layout sheets

- Layout presets: save a sheet setup and reuse it, apply a default preset to new sheets, and save whole sets of sheets

- The Save button changes colour as unsaved changes pile up (you can switch this off), and closing a project offers to download it as a file
Perrot and Slovak March 2025
- New equipment brand: Perrot rotors

- IRRISketch is now available in Slovak

- The Sprinklers table on sheets can show each head's spray body

- Many bugs fixed
Interactive connection, Rain and dark mode November 2024
- Interactive connection: heads, drip starts and root-zone watering kits connect by themselves as you draw a lateral or place heads near one, with the flow shown against the limit

- New equipment brand: Rain (rotors, spray bodies, nozzles, valves, sensors and controllers)

- Dark mode, also in the planner, the Specs sheet, IRRISeller and the Price editor

- Swing joints for 1¼" and 2" rotors in the Specs sheet
Hunter MP820 October 2024
- Hunter MP Rotator MP820 nozzles added

- Automatic placement can be cancelled while it is running
Automatic sprinkler placement September 2024
- Automatic sprinkler placement (beta): draw or pick an outline, and the planner proposes head layouts for sprays and rotors to browse and apply

- Offset: make a parallel copy of a line or a surface at a set distance

- Adjustable rotors and bubblers: draw any radius and set your own pressure and flow when no catalog product fits

- Drip cover: preview the rows over a bed, snap to lines, and change step, angle and offset from the keyboard

- IRRISketch is now available in Chinese, Simplified and Traditional

- The language menu shows each language in its own script

- Bugs fixed; autosave no longer overwrites a project open in another tab
Layouts for Moasure August 2024
- Moasure® layout export: pick heads and two reference points and get a file to stake them out on site with Moasure 2 PRO

- While placing heads, limit a series to the nozzles you choose ("Set nozzle variants")

- Turn a trench into a lateral or a main pipe with Set type
Password-protected price lists June 2024
- Price lists and their folders can be protected with a password, asked before anyone imports them

- New equipment brand: DROP BY DROP drip lines

- Bugs fixed; smoother multiple selection with Ctrl, Shift or Cmd
Zone runtime May 2024
- Set a runtime for each zone; precipitation maps of several zones weigh them by runtime and explain their errors better

- New equipment brand: AZUD drip lines

- Drawing pipes in big projects is faster

- Many bugs fixed
Two-factor login and measured spray profiles April 2024
- Two-factor authentication by e-mail

- Precipitation maps use measured spray profiles for Rain Bird nozzles and rotors

- Rain Bird controllers (ESP-BAT, TRU, RC2 indoor and more) and K-Rain RN rotary nozzles added

- Heads can have their own names, and head numbers on sheet labels match the Sprinklers table
Hungarian March 2024
- IRRISketch is now available in Hungarian

- Hunter HDL drip lines refreshed, and 230 V controllers for Australia added

- Bugs fixed
Wireless connections and Rain Bird 11000 February 2024
- Wireless connections between controllers, valves and sensors

- New Rain Bird 11000 rotors, and a 1½" swing joint

- Pre-assembled valve boxes added to the catalog
Polish and new pipe types January 2024
- IRRISketch is now available in Polish

- New pipe types: LDPE and metric PVC, with barb and metric slip fittings

- Rain Bird XFA drip line and the 1803 spray body added

- Fixed: the Favourites button, stray clicks from the context menu while drawing lines, PDF backgrounds changing scale after a reload; cover handles can be reached above other heads
Precipitation maps December 2023
- Precipitation map for selected heads or a zone: precipitation rate, uniformity (CU) and overwatering, taking obstacles into account

- Obstacles in Landscape: ones that block the water jet, and ones that only keep heads away

- Heads switch nozzle and sprinkler type by themselves when you scale several of them

- Large PDF plans placed as a background keep much better image quality

- Many bugs fixed
Satellite maps, image cropping and a flow limit November 2023
- Map tool: find an address or coordinates and insert a satellite image, already to scale, as the background

- Crop background images and rotate them by any angle

- Set a flow limit on the water source; laterals, valves and sources over it are marked as overloaded

- "Magic handles": dragging a head's corner switches to the nozzle of its series that fits the new radius

- Change the nozzle series of a head or of a whole selection; the closest nozzle is picked for you

- Short-radius and low-angle nozzles are separate choices for Hunter I-20, Hunter PGP Ultra and Rain Bird 5000

- Hunter PRO fixed nozzles updated, and Hunter PRO adjustable high-efficiency nozzles added

- Dialogs scroll and work better on phones

- IRRISketch is now available in Turkish
Touch screens and imperial units October 2023
- The planner works on tablets and phones: touch gestures, zoom and pan with two fingers, an on-screen keyboard and a magnifier that shows the pointer on small screens

- Imperial mode: feet, inches, square feet, psi, GPM, inches per hour and feet per second, imperial scale bars and PVC pipes, also in IRRISeller and the Price editor

- Right-click context menu, and a Clone action

- Handles on the canvas scale and rotate any selection; hold Alt while transforming to make a copy

- A long press starts a drag, and zooming is smoother on touchpads and the Magic Mouse

- Yellow dashed lines show where each head is attached to its pipe

- More paper formats for sheets: DIN, ANSI and Arch

- IRRISeller has an "Open project" button that takes you back to the drawing
Faster zone building September 2023
- Connect many heads at once by selecting them

- Tab switches between drawing a lateral, editing it and attaching heads to it

- Hold Space to pan the canvas, even while drawing

- The current action is shown as a short notice

- Saving warns you when the project was changed elsewhere, and offers to overwrite it, open the latest version or save to a file

- Design Studio greets your customers with your company's logo and contacts
NaanDanJain and Design Studio versions August 2023
- New equipment brand: NaanDanJain, with about 20 rotor series

- Design Studio requests keep numbered versions and can be sent to you by e-mail; its drawing tools were remade

- Sprinkler stands (risers) as a head connection type in the Specs sheet

- Bugs fixed: the Hunter MP815-360 colour, spikes shown without pipes
Solem July 2023
- New equipment brand: Solem controllers, with a 24 V controller option in the Specs sheet

- Rotors with a ½" male thread added

- New "All symbols" table on sheets lists every item of the plan
Design Studio contacts June 2023
- Design Studio shows your contacts, website and logo to your customers, and tracks the status of each request

- Fixed: copied items no longer share an ID
Portuguese May 2023
- IRRISketch is now available in Portuguese

- Tables on sheets leave out the rows of hidden items, and hidden zones are left out of the PDF

- New design for our e-mails, in every language

- The outlay list shows when each outlay was created and changed
Italian, Lithuanian and Dutch April 2023
- IRRISketch is now available in Italian, Lithuanian and Dutch

- A new visual style for sheets mixes the Sprinklers and Layouts styles

- Bigger custom connection fittings for HDPE pipes in the Specs sheet
French, Spanish and 1-inch rotors March 2023
- IRRISketch is now available in French and Spanish

- New 1-inch and bigger rotors: Hunter I-25 and I-40, Rain Bird 8005 and Falcon, K-Rain ProSport, Toro T7 and Titan

- A nozzle can cover several angle ranges at once, for the Rain Bird 8000

- Reduce a rotor's radius with its screw while it keeps the flow of its nozzle

- Improved full-circle ("360") handling of nozzles

- Layout PDF exports wait in a queue, so several of them run reliably

- Tool palettes load faster
Croatian February 2023
- IRRISketch is now available in Croatian

- Rain Bird 5000 performance tables updated

- Controller symbols are translated, and names accept the letters of every new language
Movable labels on sheets January 2023
- Move, rotate and hide the labels of heads and pipes on sheets

- The drawing engine was updated: selecting, editing and sheet tables are faster

- Layout export fixed
Design Studio December 2022
- Design Studio: send your customers a link where they draw their garden and fill in a survey (bucket test, pressure, climate, soil); you get it as a project

- Text tool in Landscape for writing directly on the drawing

- The drip cover shows its rows while you draw the outline

- Zones on sheets: show or hide each zone, and colour drip lines like their zones

- Choose which pipe types and sizes a project offers; HDPE pipes up to 250 mm

- Mark areas as irrigated or not irrigated

- More Rain Bird controllers (120 V and 230 V)

- Many bugs fixed
Greenhouses and aliases October 2022
- Greenhouses added to the Landscape objects

- Give one alias to many selected items at once
Warnings and names September 2022
- The Specs sheet warns about control wires that are not connected

- Drip starts show their names on sheets, and drip tables show line lengths

- New FAQ page
The Specs sheet in your units June 2022
- The Specs sheet and its export use your preferred units (metres or feet) and precision

- Fittings are counted more accurately where the pipe diameter changes

- Pressure regulators added

- Many bugs fixed, and deleting sprinklers is faster
Calculators May 2022
- New Calculators app: pipe pressure loss for PVC and HDPE runs, with elevation, water temperature and fittings; it can be installed for offline use

- Two new mixed visual styles for sheets: Sprinkler/Layout and Landscape/Layout

- Copy drip-line colours from one sheet and paste them on another

- Hiding sprinklers on a sheet also hides their covers and labels, and zone labels tell sprinkler, drip and root-zone zones apart
Irrigation time February 2022
- Zone properties (micro-climate, soil, slope, lawn) and a water budget give each zone its irrigation time, in a new table on sheets

- Moasure import reads layered exports and their units

- Catalog update: Hunter controllers by supply voltage, sensors, valve accessories, saddles and Rain Bird globe valves

- Many bugs fixed
Imperial units and PVC January 2022
- Imperial units: ruler and grid in feet, scale bars in feet and "1 inch = N feet" sheet scales

- PVC pipes for laterals and main pipes, with slip fittings and valve reducers in the Specs sheet

- The Specs sheet lets you choose NPT or BSP threads and 230 V or 120 V controllers

- Trench types (narrow, normal, wide), each with its own depth and its own line in the Specs sheet

- Tooltips explain the Config settings

- New outlays start in your language's currency
Video lessons in English December 2021
- A video course in English, lessons 1 to 8, from the first sketch to the Specs sheet

- Better Excel export of price lists

- Many bugs fixed
IRRISeller currencies October 2021
- IRRISeller: choose the outlay's currency, with market rates or your own conversion rules

- IRRISeller's Templater lists the placeholders your template uses, with tooltips; net and gross totals; a quick ± percent modifier

- IRRISeller tables respond much faster on large outlays

- The selection filter tells nozzles, rotors and bubblers apart
Your own bubbler August 2021
- An adjustable bubbler with the flow you set, for any bubbler the catalogs do not have
Hydrawise and Moasure May 2021
- Hydrawise: link zones to Hunter Hydrawise controller zones, then run, suspend and stop them from the plan or from a shareable control page

- Import surfaces measured with Moasure® from its CSV export

- Simplify: reduce the points of polygons and lines, within a tolerance

- Draw arrows and curves on sheets
Price editor and IRRISeller improvements March 2021
- Price editor: several IIDs per row, item groups, automatic amounts, collapse and expand all folders, and better pasting from spreadsheets

- IRRISeller Final View: group items by price-list groups or by brand, and add items automatically from a price list
IRRISeller and the Price editor February 2021
- IRRISeller: save the Specs sheet as an outlay and turn it into a priced offer, matching equipment and works to your price lists, in any currency

- Price editor: keep your own price lists of equipment and labour, with setups and quantity-based prices, paste them from spreadsheets and export them to Excel

- Share your price lists, or import public ones from distributors and manufacturers and stay linked to their updates

- Discounts and markups: element groups, value modifiers and discount plans

- Templater: fill your own Excel template with the offer; a Templates Store holds shared templates

- The Specs sheet also counts drip lines, blind tubing, trenches and more fittings

- IRRISketch is now available in Belarusian

- Hunter PGP Ultra rotors added
Better layout tables December 2020
- Layout tables: a link on each row jumps to the item on the drawing, rows can be deleted, and names sort naturally

- Many bugs fixed
Precipitation style November 2020
- New "Precipitation" visual style shows each sprinkler's precipitation on the sheet, to check the coverage

- New GOST-style title block for layout sheets
German and video lessons October 2020
- The planner is now available in German

- A Tutorials page, and a video course in German

- Hunter MP Rotator nozzles and NODE-BT battery controllers, plus more K-Rain and Rain Bird controllers
One PDF for many sheets September 2020
- Export several layout sheets into one PDF at once

- Valve boxes can be named, and their names appear in layout tables

- New drip-line brand: Netafim, and a large set of compression fittings, ball valves and check valves
Favourites and presets August 2020
- Favourite tools, and presets for your favourites, the Config and the project settings; a default preset for new projects

- Hunter X2 controllers, the WAND Wi-Fi module and flow meters added
Ukrainian and trenches June 2020
- The planner is now available in Ukrainian

- Turn any pipe or line into a trench with one action

- The Specs sheet counts installation labour: pipe metres, fittings, valve boxes and wiring

- Many bugs fixed
German website and check valves May 2020
- The website and the equipment catalogs are available in German

- Spray bodies with built-in check valves added for Hunter, K-Rain, Rain Bird and Toro

- The Specs sheet adds blind tubing, custom fittings and trenches

- The loading screen shows each stage of loading
A much faster planner April 2020
- The planner is much faster on big projects: smoother drawing and zooming, a wider zoom range, faster loading and faster import of large PDFs

- While you place a nozzle, the planner shows which nozzles fit the radius and arc you are drawing

- New bushes, a new lawn texture and new paving patterns

- Rain Bird PCT bubblers, the Maxi-Bird rotor and more swing-joint adapters added

- The Specs sheet warns about pipes without consumers
Pipe sleeves, locks and aliases March 2020
- Pipe sleeves (concrete, steel, PP-R) with diameter and depth, in their own layout tables and Specs sheet lines

- Lock items so they cannot be moved or changed by accident

- Copy and paste items between projects open in different browser tabs

- Replace a background image in place, keeping its position and scale

- Enter repeats the last tool, remembered for each tab

- Give any item an alias, shown on sheets and in tables

- New Landscape objects: pool, mulch, waterfall and more
IRRISketch 1.0 March 2, 2020
- IRRISketch leaves its beta: version 1.0 is released

- New Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy

- A new logo
Many new drip lines February 2020
- New drip-line brands Irritec and IrriGo, and more Hunter, Rain Bird, Toro and K-Rain drip lines and root-zone watering kits

- New equipment brand: Weathermatic (spray bodies, nozzles, bubblers, valves, controllers and sensors)

- Changing your password signs you out on all your other devices
IRRISketch Residential v. 0.9.11 January 16, 2020
- Many improvements on the Workshop page

- Search by project name

- Project tags, and filtering by them

- Sorting projects

- Better page navigation in the Workshop

- The number of pages and projects is shown
IRRISketch Residential v. 0.9.10 January 11, 2020
- Many landscape elements and small architectural forms added
IRRISketch Residential v. 0.9.10 December 26, 2019
- K-Rain added to the supported manufacturers
IRRISketch Residential v. 0.9.10 December 20, 2019
- Donations opened until version 1.0 is released

- And on the same day IRRISketch got its first lifetime user
IRRISketch Residential v. 0.9.10 December 10, 2019
- Even more improvements and fixes in the specs sheet

- The full TORO range added

- The specs sheet configurator looks better

- Information about elements whose connection chain is not complete
IRRISketch Residential v. 0.9.9 October 18, 2019
- Many improvements on the specs sheet configurator
IRRISketch Residential v. 0.9.8 September 21, 2019
- Import PDF files

- Export as PDF preserving layers

- Layout fonts changed to ISOCPEUR (CAD style)

- Added an OFFLINE version

- Zones identification in specs sheets and layouts (naming)

- Drip lines identification in layouts (colour tables)

- Many bugs fixed
IRRISketch Residential v. 0.9.4 June 6, 2019
- Added the trench calculation tool
IRRISketch Residential v. 0.9.3 May 28, 2019
- Added quick-coupling valves

- Many bugs fixed
IRRISketch Residential v. 0.9.2 April 19, 2019
- You can select elements by layers, holding CTRL while drawing the selection rectangle

- New equipment brand: Toro. Only Precision Series nozzles and sprays for now; other equipment is coming soon
IRRISketch Residential v. 0.9.2 April 15, 2019
- You can now remove segments of lines

- Restore an unsaved project
IRRISketch Residential v. 0.9.1 April 4, 2019
- You can now join two lines into one

- Number inputs for the sliders in the action panel
IRRISketch Residential v. 0.9.0 March 25, 2019
IRRISketch is ready to be released, with an unlimited trial period, until the revision of version 1.0 is completed.
IRRISketch Residential v. 0.8.8 February 19, 2019
The team of testers started crash tests of the program. The system bent and cracked under their pressure, but did not break!
IRRISketch Residential v. 0.8.0 January 28, 2019
IRRISketch is deployed on the production server.
IRRISketch Residential v. 0.7.5 November 14, 2018
IRRISketch is deployed on the development server.
IRRISketch Residential v. 0.2.8 April 7, 2018
The irrisketch.ru, irrisketch.com and irrisketch.ua domains are registered. The registration of the last one was refused: in the UA zone the trademark must first be registered in that jurisdiction, and there was no money for that. I hope this will not stop irrigation contractors from Ukraine. Come on in, brothers, there are no borders on the Internet!
IRRISketch Residential v. 0.0.1 October 18, 2017
IRRISketch was used to design a real automatic irrigation system for the first time, but unfortunately the customer refused the installation for unknown reasons and stopped answering calls... Hmm... probably he was confused by how quickly the system was designed...
IRRISketch was invented December 31, 2016
On New Year's Eve, an irrigation contractor from Russia, suffering from idleness and off-season unemployment, came up with how to make his work easier in the coming season with the three inventions below. He was tired of the tedious and incomprehensible interfaces of specialised CAD systems, worn out by counting fittings and related equipment by hand, and it had become totally unbearable for him to do the hydraulic calculations for each system, putting the Reynolds number into the Darcy-Weisbach formula again and again to find the pressure loss in a pipe. This is how the idea of IRRISketch was born.
The Internet was developed January 1, 1983
This happened when the ARPANET switched from the NCP protocol to TCP/IP, which is still successfully used to connect networks all around the world. Later, in 1989, scientists at CERN in Europe developed the HTTP protocol and the HTML language, whose improved versions we use in our web pages today.
The first programmable computer was invented February 14, 1946
ENIAC, a 30-ton monster created in the US, contained 18,000 electronic tubes. Like the first sprinkler, that computer was definitely not user-friendly.
The first sprinkler was invented December 19, 1871
A citizen of Buffalo, New York, invented the first lawn sprinkler, patent number US121949A. Its functionality was certainly not so hot, the range of nozzles was small, and it was hard to move around, so he had to invent wheels for it, too.

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